CCTV shows failed strike at actor Disha Patani’s Bareilly home as gang mounts twin attacks

The probe into the brazen gun attack outside Bollywood actor Disha Patani’s ancestral home in Bareilly has exposed a chilling sequence of events: the shooters were dispatched twice by the Rohit Godara–Goldy Brar gang after the first attempt failed.

According to investigators, CCTV footage from September 11 shows two men on a motorbike arriving outside Patani’s Civil Lines residence around 4:33 am. They fired a single round before fleeing, later falsely claiming to their handlers that they had discharged two shots. The misrepresentation enraged Godara, who immediately ordered a second strike.

In the early hours of September 12, another pair of shooters returned to the residence and sprayed 10–12 rounds before speeding away. The escalation was later publicly claimed by absconding gangsters Goldy Brar and Rohit Godara, who posted on social media that the attack was retribution for an alleged slight to spiritual figures Premanand Maharaj and Anirudh Acharya Maharaj by Patani’s sister Khushboo.

Disha and Khushboo’s father, Jagdish Singh Patani, denounced the claim as a “conspiracy to demean” his family, stressing: “We are Sanatanis, and we respect sadhus and saints. Khushboo was misrepresented, and her name dragged into this without reason.”

The law enforcement response was swift. On September 17, two of the assailants — identified as Ravindra of Rohtak and Arun of Sonipat, Haryana — were gunned down in an encounter by a joint team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell, the Haryana STF, and the Uttar Pradesh STF in Ghaziabad’s Tronica City. The two others, both minors, were apprehended by Delhi Police’s Counter-Intelligence Unit.

The Uttar Pradesh Police had earlier announced a reward of ₹1 lakh each for all four shooters involved.